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Meanings of consequential in English

Having important issues or results.

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Examples for "eventful"
1
The unusually eventful months brought him both new controversy and unforeseen wealth.
Begin again: a biography of john cage
2
On the morning of the eventful day I arrived in the place.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the ...
3
Preparations began at once for the eventful transaction in the throne room.
Graustark
4
He was sleepy now; it had been a long and eventful day.
The stand
5
The following week was lived in the afterglow of that eventful Sunday.
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
Usage of consequential in English
1
Being mere individuals, we didn't have the means to enact consequential change.
The Guardian
2
Clinton's tenure as secretary of State was distinguished, if not especially consequential.
NY Magazine
3
Next Friday's referendum will be an enormously consequential event for Irish society.
The Irish Times
4
Regional differences in personality are associated with a range of consequential outcomes.
Pubmed
5
This subtle but extremely consequential property of scalable randomness is unusually counterintuitive.
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
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Structural miltons, as necessarily and automatically consequential, are all, and collectively, spandrels.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Sir Lionel at once puffs out a little, as though feeling consequential.
Miss Caprice
8
In his most consequential battle, he took on his daughter, Shari Redstone.
The Irish Times
9
It was a pleasant thought to the kindly, consequential, common little man.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3
10
A pleasant man, a little consequential, but the reverse of haughty,-unctuouslyoverbearing.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05
11
Marvel Entertainment can have its massive periodic crossovers with epic consequential sweeps.
The Verge
12
What is the single most consequential political development of the past five years?
The Guardian
13
Its work is thus at once technically demanding, tortuously dull, and extremely consequential.
The new yorker
14
But Glanbia said the facility is insured for fire damage and consequential loss.
The Irish Times
15
Photo: AFP Of all the questions this will likely be the most consequential.
Radio NZ
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But these matters are far more consequential than my own employment.
The Guardian
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